Friday, June 23, 2017

St. Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy is pleased to announce that the Fota X International Liturgy Conference, to be held in Cork, Ireland, July 8-10, will be opened by His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Patron of the Sovereign Military and Hospitaler Order of St John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta. The subject of the conference is Resourcing the Prayers of the Roman Liturgy: Patristic Sources. His Eminence will deliver a paper entitled Early Sources of the Church’s Liturgical Discipline.

Card. Burke celebrating Pontifical Mass at Fota IX

The other speakers at the conference are:

Dieter Böhler SJ : Jerome and the Recent Revision of the German Einheitsübersetzung Bible.Joseph Briody : As He Promised: Davidic Hope Resurgent - the Message of 2 Kings 25:27-30.Markus Büning : Panis animarum – The Eucharist in St. Bernard of Clairvaux.Sven Conrad : The Christian Sacrifice according to St. Augustine: Prospectives taking into Consideration Joseph Ratzinger`s Approach.Gregory DiPippo : The Patristic Sources of the Roman Lectionary in Lent.Manfred Hauke : The Holy Eucharist in the Life and Work of Pope Gregory the Great.João Paulo de Mendonça Dantas : The Eucharist in the thought of Nicholas CabasilasJohannes Nebel : The Paradigmatic Change of the Post Conciliar Liturgical Reform from actio to celebratio in the Light of the Latin Fathers.
Mark Withoos: “ad audiendum silentium narrationis eius” (Ep. 147): Silence and Liturgy in St. Augustine.Kevin Zilverberg : The Latin Fathers-’ Daniel in Antiphons and Responsories.

The Lassus Scholars under the direction of Dr. Ite O’Donovan will provide the sacred music for the ceremonies to be held at Ss Peter and Paul’s Church in Cork City. The schedule is as follows: